了

瞭traditional

HSK 1#3 by frequencyradical 亅

le["y","u","v"]

(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)

liào

unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]

liǎo

to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least; to understand clearly (variant of 瞭|了[liao3])

liǎo

(of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly

Examples

响了。

It rang.

算了。

Forget it.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.